A Saturday in the Isos

Headed out on Saturday with Jesse to go climb and explore some more in the Isolated Boulders...A good day but I spaced the memory card. A few new problems, a couple good new potentials, and a 'project' that will surely go next time...all in all a good day out exploring and getting the Isos dialed back in...


Some new 'improvements' at the Burned-out Stove Boulder...

The weather looks a bit sketchy for the weekend...but it may turn out decent for exploring...sometimes you just gotta go out and look...

Cheers!

Just another Autumn photo post--Mom and Son

Some shots of Molly and Ladd on the stone just off of the beginning of the CDT (Homestake tracks):











The uber-thin diagonal cracks in the last pic are untouched as of yet...

Hideout Ridge and the CDT

Looked like the weather on top of the pass would be getting tough soon, with one more nice weekend in the cards and the brotherman hanging out in Butte, we headed out to some of the higher elevation areas...







Sometimes there's a loose flake or two on the new ones...careful out there...


Laughing up WSOW (World Series of Wide)

After a quick warm up on a new one, the plan was to check out the Taxman look-alike...which turned out to be a bit harder than we remembered...so we took a 'quick' exploring tour that ended up going on for about 4 hours. The ridge has an incredible amount of potential, and some really wild looking lines...we became very overwhelmed by the whole hike...so many good looking lines, then another handful of pins and fins just a few minutes farther.(repeat) I have no doubt that this area will be seeing much more action in the coming seasons...


Looking back at the Hideout (currently contains ~20 routes on the two formations)



Pat scoping a wide one



Interesting feature on this one...

After a evening in Butte we headed back out to the Blue bro project on the CDT...meeting up with Clay and Mish in process...a good day working the rig, with everyone giving it a go.


Clay getting inverted


Belay perspective

Finally the beta was figured out and Pat got the TR send. Strong work to be sure...plans for the lead are in the works, but now with the seasons changing, this might become a spring mission...

Overall a great weekend savoring the last efforts of Autumn.

Cheers!